(GOBRECHT, Harry J.)[Photo Album]: Southern California Photos including the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Opening Ceremony [Circa 1929-1932]. Large oblong quarto. String-tied flexible black buckram album. There are several blank pages in the second half of the album, occasional chipping and wear to the brittle pages, some leaves and photos detaxched, overall very good or better. Most of the photographs are pasted to the black paper leaves. Overall near fine. The album contains 175 black and white photographs (most 3" x 5"), circa 1929-32 (with a few earlier WWI images). Most are dated, and many are captioned. It contains images captured at Southern California beaches, Catalina, Santa Monica, Palm Springs, Griffith Park, and other locations, as well as some vacation photos from Washington State, Oregon, and Chicago. Perhaps most notably it includes 21 images from the the opening ceremony for the 1932 Olympic Games held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. .

CHRISTIE, AgathaTHE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1929 - First US edition. Original orange cloth, lettered in black, in stylish Art Deco pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, which is improbably bright and crisp with barely a blemish. Brings together the Wodehousian characters first introduced in The Secret of Chimneys. The flaps of this dustwrapper are free from print, implying it is a pre-publication issue or proof dustwrapper. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Richter, HansFilm: Gegner von Heute - Freunde von Morgen [Enemy of Film Today - Friend of Film Tomorrow] (First Edition) Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G.M.B.H., 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Small quarto. A companion volume to Werner Graff's "Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf," an early and highly influential study of experimental film published to coincide with the 1929 Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart. Illustrated with numerous photographs, film stills, and film strips, with photographic reproductions by many of the important avant-garde `artists of the era, including Man Ray, Duchamp, Leger, and Richter himself. A fascinating book from several perspectives. Not only one of the first books to attempt to characterize early avant-garde filmmaking, but a lushly produced volume, with hundreds of stills from various early experimental films, speaking not only to concept but also to technique and method. The stills selected by Richter include not only strips and stills of the films discussed, but also rare images of candid on-set images of the filmmakers at work.Fine in an Near Fine, exceptionally sharp example of the scarce dust jacket, with only a bit of horizontal creasing on the jacket spine panel to note.

Biró, Miklós (ed.)Magyar Grafika. X. év 7-8. szám. Különszám: Reklameschau. [Hungarian Graphic. Year 10. No. 7-8. Special number: Reklam-schau.] Magyar Grafika (1929), Budapest - With numerous illustrations. First edition. Text in Hungarian and German. In original, illustrated wrappers. Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik. (2), 173-224, XIII-XVIII p. Double number of the most important Hungarian typographical review. This issue is dealing with advertisement, and contains several modernist typographical examples. Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik (1893-1976) the Hungarian painter and graphic artist. Member of Kassák's artistic circles. Exhibited his activist, cubist and constructivist works at MA's exhibitions in Budapest and in Berlin in the Galerie Der Sturm as well. In 1922 Bortnyik went to Weimar where he got connected with the Bauhaus. Worked as stage designer for the Hungarian Avant-garde theater, the "Zöld Szamár" (Green Donkey). Edited the Avant-garde periodical "Új Föld" (New Earth). In original, illustrated wrappers. Cover designed by Sándor Bortnyik First edition. Text in Hungarian and German. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

BARBIER, GEORGESOriginal Sketch Signed with initials, folio, Aug. 1929 - Barbier has sketched a multicolored fantasy seascape with a soft toned mermaid at the center. Drawn on folio sheet with some show through of handwriting (in an unknown hand) on verso. The handwriting shows as soft arcs and fits in with the image. Signed in the middle of the drawing in small letters with date, "GB Aug. 1929." Matted in gray and framed in silver toned wood. Barbier is best known for his theater designs, ballet costumes, and particularly for his high fashion illustrations. He led a group of illustrators from the Beaux Arts School known for their flamboyance as much as their art. Barbier also created jewelry, glass and wallpaper design and worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Follies Bergére. He died at the height of his career. In 1929, Barbier was the costume designer for musical "The Street Singer." [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Christie, AgathaSEVEN DIALS MYSTERY (First American Edition in the ORIGINAL Dustjacket) New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Near fine condition in a very good ORIGINAL, extremely rare, orange, black & lime green dustjacket! Head of jacket spine lightly rubbed. There is a 2" chip on the upper rear panel of the jacket, a 1" closed tear at bottom of rear panel of the jacket and a 1/4" chip at top edge of the front panel of the jacket. None of these minor imperfections affect any text. Tips of the jacket are ever so slightly rubbed. Black lettered orange boards are bright with a very tiny pin hole in the front gutter. Edges & corners of boards are sharp. Orange stained top edges. Bottom and fore edges ever so slightly soiled. Orange decorated pastedowns and flyleaves have NO flaws. Images will be sent upon request. ; 8vo; vi, 310 pages .

(DETECTIVE FICTION ) MITCHELL, GladysSpeedy Death London: Victor Gollancz Ltd,, 1929. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Edges and endpapers foxed; an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has sunned spine, and a short closed tear to head of spine. First edition, first impression of the author's first novel. The publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown.

(STEICHEN, Edward ) SANDBURG, CarlSteichen the Photographer New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1929. Quarto. Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine and front cover. Portrait frontispiece of Steichen and 48 photogravure plates. A few marks to covers. A very good copy. First and limited edition, one of 925 numbered copies signed by Steichen and Sandburg. An important monograph, the first devoted to Steichen's work, and included in Roth's The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century: "Sandburg's folksy modesty is a bit at odds with the solemnity and sumptuousness of the book itself, which includes a broad and cleverly sequenced array of Steichen's work handsomely printed in warm sepia tones".

SWEM, CharlesWerewolf London, Hutchinson. [1929], 1929. First UK Edition. 8vo. 288pp. +16pp ads dated spring 1929. Publisher's dark red cloth titled in black to spine and front board, minor edgewear, clean and bright. Dusty edges. In a striking black, red and yellow dustwrapper, slightly soiled and scuffed, darkened to spine and with some gentle fraying to edges. Internally clean, neat ink ownership to flyleaf. A bizarre mystery in which a bedridden old gentleman is thrust into paroxysms of frenzy and commits atrocities in a wolf skin, written by a man chiefly remembered for creating a variant form of shorthand for reporters.

Ramon y Cajal, SantiagoÉtudes sur la neurogen?se de quelques vertébrés Madrid, 1929. Ramon y Cajal, Santiago (1852-1934). Études sur la neurogen?se de quelques vertébrés. xii, 393pp. Text illustrations. Madrid: n.p., 1929. 251 x 173 mm. Library buckram. Very good. First Edition in Book Form. ?[Cajal?s] work on the development of various nervous structures, published intermittently over a long period, was collected and translated into French as Études sur la neurogen?se de quelques vertébrés (1929)? (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). The 19 papers included here, originally published between 1890 and 1925, cover aspects of embryonic nerve cell development, neurogenesis of the cerebral cortex, development of retinal and sensory nerves, etc. Cajal updated several of the papers to include information on more recent developments. Cajal, Recollections of My Life (1937), p. 607.

GRAVES, RobertGood-Bye To All That: an autobiography Cape, 1929. 1st edition. Hardcover. True first printing with the original Siegfried Sassoon poem, or verse letter, in full on pp 341-3, and the piece on page 290 which alludes to Sassoon's mother's attempts to communicate with the spirit of her dead son, Siegfried's younger brother Hamo. Outraged that he had not given permission for their inclusion, Sassoon insisted that these passages were immediately removed, and therefore asterisks appear in subsequent copies, and very few copies exist of this original issue. Graves and Sassoon were never friends again. The original salmon cloth boards are in fine condition, a minor bump at the heel of the spine, else entirely unmarked. The pages and endpapers are completely free of foxing. The original dustwrapper is not price-clipped, is in very good condition, with minor professional repairs at front fold and head of spine. In sum, an excellent example of Graves's classic memoir of the First World War. Included is a 1929 typed letter from noted New York bookdealer, James F. Drake, to a customer in which he says, 'I am sorry I cannot supply a copy of Good-bye to All That, first issue. As you probably know, the book was suppressed on account of the war poem by Sassoon, etc, and very, very few copies got into circulation. Unfortunately, I did not get any'. Also included are black-and-white photographic reproductions of (a) the first page, overlaid on the final page, of Sassoon's suppressed poem, in Graves's hand, which he says at the top is a copy 'in case I lost the original', dated 24.7.18, and (b) two pages, plus the title page, showing the annotations made by Edmund Blunden, with Sassoon's help, to a copy of Graves's book, pursuant to their irritation with their perceived inaccuracies and omissions in Graves's wartime account (they intended to send their annotated copy to the British Museum - but never actually did so). These reproductions come from Lew David Feldman's record of the sale of Sassoon items in 1975. In the printed edition of Good-Bye To All That, Graves omitted nine lines, including the final six, of Sassoon's poem.

Hemingway, ErnestA Farewell To Arms New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1929 - First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, gilt labels with black lettering to the front board and spine. About near fine, with some light rubbing to the extremities, bright spine with a slight lean, light rubbing to the board and the front title label, erased ownership inscription to the front pastedown, part of a bookseller's plate to the front free endpaper, otherwise bright and clean interior. Overall, a sturdy and attractive copy. Set in Italy during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a romance between the protagonist Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, and Catherine Barkley, a British nurse tending to wounded soldiers. Widely considered one of the best novels to come from the war, the novel is, as the dust jacket proclaims, "the very essence of beauty as twisted and made tragic by war" that "expresses the innermost nature of war." Unlike many of the other war novels by contemporary writers, A Farwell to Arms addresses not only the aftermath of WWI but the events of the war itself and specifically the Italian Front around the Battle of Caporetto of Autumn 1917. Accordingly, it stood out amongst the war novels, becoming Hemingway's first best-seller and establishing him as a premier American writer. Interestingly, in his 1958 interview with The Paris Review, Hemingway famously remarked, "I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied." [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

BAUM, L. Frank; Ruth Plumly Thompson (founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories)Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co,, 1929. Octavo. Original grey cloth, colour pictorial image pasted down to front board, titles and decoration to spine in black, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Frank Kramer. Spine gently rolled, corners and ends of spine rubbed, "book belongs to" page with tin man and title neatly water coloured in, pages mildly toned, mild soiling to rear cover, in the dust jacket with shallow chipping to corners, wear and short closed tears to extremities, closed tear at head of spine having been repaired with glue at verso. A very attractive copy. First edition, first printing.

(Nash, Paul) Lermontov, Mikhail YurievitchA Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevitch his young body-guard and the valiant merchant Kalashnikov. Translated by John Cournos London: The Aquila Press, 1929. No. 288 of 750 copies, on gray Maillol handmade paper, printed in black and red. With decorations by Paul Nash, who also designed the format and binding. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original full terra-cotta morocco binding, designed by Paul Nash, onlaid with right-angled forms of black and white calf on upper cover, blind rules, pages uncut, black-stained tops, faint shelf wear, else fine, and attractive. Nash, Paul. No. 288 of 750 copies, on gray Maillol handmade paper, printed in black and red. With decorations by Paul Nash, who also designed the format and binding. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Decorations and Binding by Paul Nash. The second book of the press, hand set and printed, "the printing finished on the evening of Thursday, the 27th of June 1929" (Colophon). Ransom could trace only eight titles from the press, the last of them produced in July, 1930. A handsome and unusual example of Nash&#39;s work. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, p. 4

Uttley, Alison Illustrated by Margaret TempestThe Squirrel The Hare and The Little Grey Rabbit; London, Heinemann, 1929; - 1st edition, first printing, of Alison Uttley's first published book for children. Hardback.7" x 5.5". Good / No dust jacket. 111pp with delightful colour illustrations by Margaret Tempest and with text in blue. Green pictorial endpapers by Margaret Tempest. Free front endpaper has had a sticker removed leaving a scuff mark and a closed tear which has been repaired. Red covers with black title on front & spine plus pictorial inlay showing Grey Rabbit on stepping stones. 1" from the top of the spine is missing Spine cracked & worn at back hinge , light wear at corner. A nice copy, clean and bright throughout. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Beatrix PotterThe Fairy Caravan Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1929 The book is in very good minus condition. The binding is solid and thereare no rips. There are a few tiny spots on some of the page edges. There is some moderate overall wear on the front cover and two tinyspots. There is a bookplate pasted inside the front cover and a giftinscription written there too.

Shakespeare, WilliamThe Works of Shakespeare. the Text of the First Folio With Quarto Variants and a Selection of Modern Readings: Edited By Herbert Farjeon London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. London: Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. London: Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. London: The Nonesuch Press This is set number 905 of 1050 for sale in Great Britain. Publisher's full niger morocco by A.W. Bain. Covers with gilt double fillet border and tiny gilt star corner ornaments, spines similarly ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge cut and gilt, others edges open and untrimmed. Lovely set. Comes with two duplicate volumes (extras of 6 and 7). The only notable defect in all nine volumes is a litlle scratch on the bottom of the spine of one copy of volume 7 (the other copy being fine). No bumps to any volumes, very clean. Elegant period bookplate in all volumes except the duplicates.

Graham GreeneThe Man Within Heinemann 1929 - Third impression from July 1929 impression in VG condition, there is a bookseller sticker to ffep, no other internal markings, pages toned but clean, binding firm. The jacket has toning and general wear and there is a mark to the spine where an old sticker that covered up the price has been removed, please see pics, jacket in removable protective sleeve, paypal accepted, any questions please get in touch. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

RABELAISALL THE EXTANT WORKS OF FRANCOIS RABELIAS - (DE BOSSCHERE,JEAN)illus. ALL THE EXTANT WORKS OF FRANCOIS RABELAIS: an American translation by Samuel Putnam. NY: Covici Friede 1929. 3 volumes, folio, cloth backed boards, top edges gilt, boards toned, spines faded, both common with this set, VG+. 1st edition. LIMITED TO 1300 NUMBERED COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS. Illustrated with the most magnificent stylized full page color illustrations by De Bosschere and with more than 100 fabulous full page black and whites, all printed on fine paper resulting in fine reproductions. The text is complete with fascinating critical text and notes. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

WOLFE, ThomasLook Homeward, Angel A Story of the Buried Life New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1929. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a dark red cloth solander box. Spine a little darkened, bottom corners of boards a touch bumped. An excellent copy in a faintly rubbed and nicked jacket with one short closed tear to rear panel and light vertical crease to spine panel. First edition, first printing, in the second issue dust jacket.

Bulgakov, Michail [Mikhail]Osudná vejce. [The Fatal Eggs.] Knihy Dobrých Autor?, (Prague) 1929 - First Czech edition. In original, photographically illustrated cover, designed by Vladimir Golovin. The gatherings are unstapled as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time. 101, (3) p. Vladimir Golovin's striking surrealist photomontage on the cover of the rare Czech first edition of the science fiction novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, the master of Russian satire. In original, photographically illustrated cover, designed by Vladimir Golovin. The gatherings are unstapled as customary for Czech paperbacks of the time

Gide, AndréVoyage au Congo suivi du Retour du Tchad et illustré de soixante-quatre photographies inédites de Marc Allégret Gallimard (1929), Paris - Contemporary calf, gilt, by Millioud, original wrappers and spine preserved. 13 inches x 10 inches. Slight wear to extremities, endpapers foxed. One of 1500 copies on Arches paper, this not numbered, but initialed by Gide in place of a number. With a long presentation inscription from Gide to Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias. It was at Gide's suggestion that Covarrubias began writing his masterpiece "Island of Bali". [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

JUENGER ERNSTSTORM OF STEEL DOUBLEDAY DORAN FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1929 - HB GREY BLUE CLOTH BUMPED AT BASE OF SPINE ELSE NEAR FINE PP284 DW FINE 8V0 Embedded in the German trenches during World War One and, within a decade of publication, the classic account [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Davis, William HeathSeventy-Five Years in California. A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political and Military; Under the Mexican Regime; During the Quasi-Military Government of the Territory by the United States, and After the Admission of the State to the Union John Howell, San Francisco 1929 - xxxii, 422 pp. plus additions. Signed by the editor and publisher. No. 150 of the Author's Section of the Argonaut Edition (limited to 50 copies). Extra-illustrated with 18 additional items (and typed index) including a n original copy in pencil of a manuscript of the author, "Early Recollections of San Francisco and Bay and River Navigation." a wonderful work. "Most valuable of all Californian reminiscences," Howes, p. 153. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate. Howes D136. Cowan, p. 160. Zamorano 80: 27. Kurutz 170b. Rocq 9091. A near fine copy, tiny chip to paper covering at tip of fore edge. Quarter linen over paper covered boards, paper spine label [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Lawrence, D.H.(translator)The Story of Doctor Manente Being the Tenth and Last Story from the Suppers of A. F. Grazzini Call Il Lasca G. Gorigoli, Florence; 1929 - Octavo. One of 1000 copies On Lombardy paper signed by the author 119pp., bound in cream colored paper covered boards, printed in red on upper over, central red oval ornament with fleur-de-lis, spine lettering red. A lovely copy with closed tears across the top of front and rear panels, tape residue to endpapers. Contains a bookplate of the Phoenix on front pastedown. Very nice.